One of my favorite comics, Tundra, by Chad Carpenter, has picked up a vacating B.C. slot in The Bellingham Herald (WA). Tundra is a self-syndicated strip that appears in over a 100 newspapers – including the L.A. Times. If you’re a fan like, me you’ll also be happy to know, he’s releasing a book of […]
Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy was recently dropped from the Herald Tribune (FL) and the editor wanted to explain why – as well as apologize for allowing Mallard Filmore into the paper. I thought “Mallard” was annoying, stupid and worst of all, not funny. I wrote a nice story about Tinsley for my editor and “Mallard” […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams turns 50 today. A somewhat retrospective post on his blog to commemorate the passing: When I was 20, I wondered what it would be like to be 50. None of my guesses were close. I assumed that “aging” was automatically bad, so I didn’t look forward to it. No one told […]
Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, The Daily Universe, periodically pulls and replaces comics when the subject matter runs contrary to the student’s honor code. A couple of days ago, they ran an editorial explaining why, but did not mention a particular instance.Excerpt: Currently, The Daily Universe includes six comic strips: Zits, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, Peanuts, […]
Today’s Zippy the Pinhead features Baltimore’s Senator Theatre. The gag comes after a recent visit to Baltimore in April of this year. The theater’s owner invited Bill Griffith to visit the theater during his book signing tour in Maryland and Bill worked it into a comic. Later this month, Zippy will also include two other […]
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for the D.C. rag Politico, writes in to announce that Ann Telnaes’ animated editorial cartoons are now featured in the British newspaper web site – the Guardian. The Guardian is one of England’s flagship newspapers.
I continue to find more papers that are dropping Johnny Hart’s B.C. and Bryant Parker’s Wizard of Id. Both paper’s appear in the 1000+ newspaper level, so statistically, there was bound to be many papers that dropped the features.The Day (Connecticut), is dropping B.C. and holding a poll to find out who should take it’s […]
A movie based on the Mandrake the Magician comic is heading into production to be a movie. Criss Angel, an illustionist/magician who has a television show called “Mind Freak”, is cast as the main character and will provide some of the special effects. Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask and The Scorpion King has signed […]
Dean Young, son of Blondie creator Chic Young opened up a chain of sandwich shops last year called Dagwood Sandwich Shoppe. The Palm Beach Post food critic, Charles Passy, has written up a review of his recent experience eating there. But the real appeal of Dagwood’s may be its signature Dagwood sandwich. It costs $9.69 […]
From ComicsDC blog comes news that four nationally known cartoonists’ work has been included in the Smithsonian’s American Presidents exhibit. Pat Oliphant’s work includes some of his sculptures of various presidents. Edward Sorels has a caricature/painting of Jimmy Carter depicted as Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Jack Davis has a caricature of President Nixon shaking […]
Dan Piraro gets a write-up in The Suburban (Quebec) about his feature Bizarro. Some of the material covered includes: life as a syndicated cartoonist, his interest in environmental and animal rights, and religion.
The Commercial Dispatch announced Monday that they have dropped Wizard of Id, B.C. Dennis the Menace and Blondie in a recent redesign of their features section. Non-legacy strips such as Lio, The Other Coast and the Elderberries also were tossed out to make room for seven new features that include: Zits, Baby Blues, Flo and […]
Terry LaBan, co-writer and artist for Edge City talks to Comic Book Resources about his feature.An excerpt: Q. In what ways does the daily format work to your advantage in telling stories and to what degree is it frustrating? A. I don’t think it’s often appreciated what a unique and cool way a daily comic […]
Stan Goldberg (Archie Comics), Bunny Hoest (The Lockhorns), and Mike Lynch (magazine cartoonist) will be paneling a discussion on 1940s and 1950s comics and the post-war Long Island life this Sunday at the Long Island Museum. The event is free and runs from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Received an email from Dan Thompson announcing that Humorous Maximus is back up and serving out comics again. Participating cartoonists are getting their cartoons back onto the site, and Steve Canyon and Latigo are up and running as well.